Poetics and politics of Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2011
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| Series: | Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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Table of Contents:
- Shāhnāmah and the presumptive authority of the West
- An epic's journey
- At home : the Shāhnāmah in New Persian
- A fierce fidelity: Ferdowsi and his archetype
- Why the Shāhnāmah
- The man in the myths
- The poet, the prince, and the language
- Epic unity : the case against underanalysis
- Sibling rivalry
- Killing demons, deposing kings : the Akvān episode
- Of lusting and ousting
- Conclusion : Shāhnāmah and the tyranny of Eurocenterism